That’s right. If you are downtown this Wednesday, April 16, at noon, stop by Sidney Harman Hall and watch me perform with the fabulous improv company Poetic License. I won’t be doing improv, but I will be performing one of my poems, after which the company rifts improvisationally on its … Continue reading

Not that Washington has ever been a hot bed for political theatre—Hair didn’t even come to the National until 1970, two years after its Broadway premiere in 1968—but in Fall 2012 there is a decided lack of almost anything political resembling a play. Sure, Molly Ivins and an utterly sanitized Janis Joplin entertain us at … Continue reading

I decided to write this review in ink. When the pen I was using ran out of ink, I switched to pencil. No, seriously—no computer for this one. Even an Underwood typewriter would be too high-brow for a Woody Guthrie review. In a season packed with nostalgia—from Molly Ivins to … Continue reading